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Gyana Karma Sanyasa Yoga

ज्ञानकर्मसन्यासयोग

Knowledge & Renunciation42 verses

The eternal tradition of spiritual wisdom, the purpose of divine incarnations (avatars), and how the fire of transcendental knowledge burns all karmic reactions to ashes.

📜 Key Verses

Verse 4.7

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत । अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥

yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham

Whenever and wherever there is a decline in dharma, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of adharma—at that time I manifest Myself.

Verse 4.8

परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् । धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥

paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge

To protect the righteous, to annihilate the wicked, and to reestablish the principles of dharma, I appear millenium after millenium.

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